Past Event Category: Upcoming Events
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Nov 13✏️CTRW: Writing and the Odyssey Program with Jennifer Fandel and Kevin Mullen
Education Building, Room Wisconsin Idea
Since 2003, the UW Odyssey Project has offered free, credit-bearing humanities courses to low-income adult students from marginalized communities—including in four Wisconsin prisons. Writing is central to the program: from self-reflective essays and storytelling to blues lyrics and research editorials. This talk will explore how Odyssey’s writing-centered approach fosters voice, self-efficacy, and a passion for …
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Nov 12Pedagogy Brown Bag Lunch🥪
Helen C. White, Room 6191
Join your colleagues to build community around our teaching experiences, troubleshoot pedagogical challenges, and learn and grow together as teachers in our Pedagogy Brown Bag Lunch workshops. Anyone who teaches in the English Department, including TAs, instructional staff, and faculty, is warmly welcome. BYO lunch. This free, in-person event is open to graduate students, faculty, …
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Nov 11🎤 Lunchtime Reading with Billy Kahora
Helen C. White, Room 6191
Billy Kahora, author of The Cape Cod Bicycle War and former editor of Kwani?, will give a reading from his forthcoming novel We Are Here Because We Are Here, as well as selections from his previous short story collection. Join us for this midday literary event featuring one of East Africa’s most compelling contemporary voices. …
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Nov 6AI Literacy📕
Helen C. White, Room 6172
Join specialists from Learn@UW and our WAC Director Emily Hall for a panel exploring UW–Madison’s approved AI tools, including how these tools work, how they compare to other AI tools, and data and privacy issues. We will also explore ways to prompt AI and consider how students might be harnessing the technology for their writing …
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Nov 4Panel: Cultivating Latine/x Resilience Amidst Challenging Conditions✊
Memorial Library, Room 126
This panel brings together scholars from literature, ethnic studies, and geography to examine how Latine/x communities have created communities of resistance within exclusionary conditions. The panelists examine how Latine/x resilience has allowed for the creation of creative and lucrative labor ventures, decolonial medicine and healing practices, and spaces of belonging within racial borderlands. Want to …
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Nov 4Panel 2: Cultivating Latine/x Resilience Amidst Challenging Conditions🌱
Memorial Library, Room 126 / Zoom
Join us, along with the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies Program and other sponsors, for the first panel in the 2025–2026 speaker series, Building Communities of Care and Resilience in Times of Crisis. This panel brings together scholars from literature, ethnic studies, and geography to examine how Latine/x communities have created communities of resistance within exclusionary …
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Oct 29Careers in TESOL🌍
Helen C. White, Room 6191
Undergraduate and Graduate students can learn about career opportunities in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Hear from three panelists about how they navigated their TESOL careers, starting as undergraduates. The panelists have taught in a wide variety of contexts and locations including being a Peace Corps volunteer, teaching English in China and …
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Oct 27Chemistry, Autarky, and Empire: Manufacturing Film in Fascist Germany📽️
Memorial Library, Room 126
We often think of cinema’s politics as matters of subject and style, distribution and reception. This talk, however, locates them in film’s raw materials—in substances like silver, gelatin, and cotton, on which cinema’s play of light and shadow depends. It does so through the case of Nazi Germany, examining the Agfa film company’s embrace of …
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Oct 24🎤When the Wild Things Are: Variations on the Eternal Return
Helen C. White, Room 6191
the Modernism/Contemporary Graduate Student Colloquium is hosting guest speaker CalArts Professor and boundary 2 co-editor Arne De Boever for his talk, “When the Wild Things Are: Variations on the Eternal Return (of the Same).” Professor De Boever is well known for his thinking contemporary philosophy and political thought, which includes monographs such as Plastic Sovereignties …
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Oct 23🗣️English Alumni Speaker Series: Michael Braun
Lecture: Helen C. White, Room 6191 (11:30-12:15pm) / Lunch: Helen C. White, Room 7191 (12:30-1:30pm)
Join us in a conversation with alumnus Michael Braun, Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Orange Hat Publishing. Braun will talk about Orange Hat, share his journey into editing and publishing, and offer insights into the path to publication for aspiring writers. This event is part of our ongoing English Alumni Speaker Series, highlighting the diverse careers …